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Nick Carraway In The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Characters in the story are what make the story to be alive with the Nick Carraway as the narrator of the novel as this story was told solely based by Nick. He is a young man from Minnesota and a graduate from Yale. After joining in World War 1, he goes to learn about the born business in New York. Nick is an honest and tolerant man. Also, he is willling to reserve judgement as he always serves as a confidant for people with problematic secrets. After he moved to West Egg. Nick quickly befriends with the neighbor who lives next door to him, Jay Gatsby. Nick was the one who makes the love between Jay Gatsby and and Daisy Buchanan, his cousin, possible. The protagonist of the novel, Jay Gatsby is a very fabolous, wealthy and young man who lived in a mansion in West Egg. He is famous because of the happening parties he throws every …show more content…

Myrthe is the type who wants hef life to be better and not living in the same situation as therefore he chose Tom to be his lover. Unfortunately, Tom just treat her as a woman to satisfy his lust. Myrtle’s `husband, George Wilson is a lifeless man. George really loves Myrthle however dissapointed with her affair with Tom. George was very sad when Myrthle was killed. He was comparable to Gatsby as they both are dreamers and were self-ruined by their unrequited love to the women who love Tom. Owl Eyes and Klipspringer are the very minor characters who only makes a few appearances in the story. Owl eyes is the eccentric and bespectacled drunk whom Nick meets during the party at Gatsby’s mansion. Nick found him at Gatsby’s library as he was amazed by the books. For Klipspringer, he lives in Gatsby’s mansion and always take advantages on Gatsby generosity but after his death, he dissapears and not even went to the funeral. One day, he called Nick only to be found that he wanted back a pair of tennis shoes where he left it at the

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